News Blog – Times Online – WBLG: Greatest ever letter of complaint – "imagine it’s Christmas morning and you’re sat their with your final present to open. It’s a big one, and you know what it is. It’s that Goodmans stereo you picked out the catalogue and wrote to Santa about.
Only you open the present and it’s not in there. It’s your hamster Richard. It’s your hamster in the box and it’s not breathing."
Very funny letter of complaint sent to Richard Branson.

Spectacular HomeCamp feedback! – Some talk heads about HomeCamp. Interesting to hear what people got out of the event. I'm in there somewhere babbling on a bit wishing I had thought about what to say first.

Charlie’s Diary: On finishing – "Creativity is a weird thing. You can plod along a steep uphill road for months, or it can hit you like an express train. I've learned to go with the flow when this happens: if a story wants to escape it's best to let it out, to go with the flow and worry about cleaning up the schedule afterwards."

Charlie gives an insight into what its like to finish writing a novel. Even if it is 18months early.

BBC Common Platform: From my notebook – "Rights" is often used as the reason the BBC struggles to be more open with its content. As a part of his Common platform work, Steve points out that "there are other obstacles to sharing—many in fact. This chart is a first attempt at capturing all the reasons the BBC might come up with for not opening up…"

Young Bond: The Shadow War – Six To Start's latest offering – an ARG tied to the Young Bond series. A new mission will be put each week for the next seven weeks, culminating with a live event on October 8th featuring Charlie Higson.